Five of the Biggest Minecraft YouTubers by Subscribers and Views

Minecraft has always been enormous on YouTube. In the year covered by this list, Minecraft content passed 201 billion views on the platform, making it one of the biggest forces in gaming video.

Here are five of the largest Minecraft YouTubers from that period, based on subscriber counts, views, and their connection to the game.

DanTDM, 24.3 million subscribers

DanTDM is a variety gaming creator, but Minecraft has been a major part of the channel for years. Since starting in 2012, the channel has earned roughly 17 billion YouTube views.

Many of DanTDM's biggest Minecraft videos came from 2014 and 2015. His two most-viewed uploads reached up to 52 million views, which is not bad for block-related chaos.

PopularMMOs, 17.2 million subscribers

PopularMMOs built a huge audience around Minecraft, especially mod showcases and gameplay built around unusual modded scenarios. The channel began in 2012 and accumulated more than 14.1 billion views.

The channel was larger at its peak, then declined after the posting schedule slowed. Later, it began rising again as more videos appeared, including some reaction-based content rather than only Minecraft gameplay.

PopularMMOs' largest videos reached about 56 million views and were mostly centered on creative Minecraft mods.

Dream, 14.5 million subscribers

Dream became one of the fastest-growing Minecraft creators after launching the channel in 2014. By the period covered here, the channel had reached 14.5 million subscribers and around 1.2 billion views.

Dream's rise in 2020 was unusually fast, growing from around 1 million subscribers to 14.5 million. That growth also came with controversy over Minecraft speedrunning.

Dream appeared on speedrunning leaderboards, but those runs were later challenged. Research into the results concluded that the odds of authenticity were nearly statistically impossible, including a cited likelihood of 1 in 7 trillion. A 28-page paper and a YouTube video reviewed the findings.

Outside that controversy, Dream's growth showed how quickly Minecraft content could still create a major new face on YouTube.

Stampylonghead, 9.77 million subscribers

Stampylonghead has one of the longest histories on this list, with the channel starting in 2011. It had about 7.5 billion all-time YouTube views during the period covered here.

The channel has covered some games outside Minecraft, but Minecraft remained the main focus. Stampylonghead was also highly active compared with many older Minecraft channels, posting almost every day.

Many of the channel's biggest videos came from 2013. The largest reached 59 million views and came from Minecraft series that helped define the channel.

iBallisticSquid, 4.16 million subscribers

iBallisticSquid is another older Minecraft creator, also starting in 2011. The channel had reached around 2.8 billion views.

Although successful, iBallisticSquid slowed down significantly in the period covered here, posting roughly five times per month in 2020. Newer uploads also shifted more toward variety gaming instead of only Minecraft.

Even so, the channel's biggest videos were still mostly Minecraft uploads from around 2013, with top videos reaching up to 17 million views.